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Old 10th October 2009 | 14:50
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IXNAT
 
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Kempilot,
A few differences between US flying and here. What are your duty rigs to get you to your 80+ hours? What is your duty time per month? Does your duty end when the parking brake is set. Believe me, not one month of flying in the US for over 30+ years was as challenging and fatiguing as flying over nine hours on a turnaround on the backside of the clock during monsoon season into India in a non radar enviornment.

If you prang an aircraft in the US, will you be arrested? Will your union protect you? You done any 16 hour flights across 11 time zones, turn around and fly 16 hours back with only 28 hours of layover?

All the flying around here is not like that, and some is very good and fun. But to compare duty time, duty rigs, union contracted flying and employment, FAA independent oversight to what happens, not just here but other out of US companies, is absurd. There simply is no comparison.
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